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Feingold on the 5th anniversary of Bush's signing of Congressional authorization for use of military force in Iraq:

“I will not stand idly by while this mistaken war continues. I will continue working to end this war and bring our troops home, and I will continue looking in the days and weeks ahead for opportunities to debate and vote on ending the war – this year, and, if necessary, next as well. My colleagues may complain, they may be inconvenienced, they may prefer to focus on other matters. But this Congress has no greater priority than making right the mistake it made five years ago when it authorized this misguided war.”

Every senator who voted to authorize this war, one so obviously based on lies, including the unrepentent Hillary Clinton (who should go to jail for it, not become president), are drenched in the blood of Iraqi civilians and American soldiers.

This piece Should be posted far and wide to expose the Republican 'Fake outrage', it explains it perfectly;

Ritual defamation and humiliation are designed to make the group feel contempt for the victim and over time it's extremely hard to resist feeling it when the victims fail to stand up for themselves.

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It's an excellent technique and one they continue to employ with great success, most recently with the entirely fake Move-On and Pete Stark "controversies." (The Democrats try their own versions but rarely achieve the kind of full blown hissy fit the Republicans can conjure with a mere blast fax to Drudge and their talk radio minions.)

Thanks, Senator Feingold. Thanks for being the pest in Washington that you are. Thanks for standing up and doing the right thing for all citizens of the United States. You will never know how much I appreciate the work you do.

I challenge Russ to followup his thoughts by actions.
Now what might they be . Besides trying to convince other Senators of stopping the funding, he might try
to make direct appeals to the American people.

Suppose he invited all of them to call Bush at the
same time. Or do something bold. For those of you who love Science fiction, I call your
attention to the day earth stood still. When the
alien, stopped all electric impulses except
hospitals , planes etc at one time. Now that was
an attention getter.

I don't know whether Bush could be moved by anything --
but those cowardly straw men and women in the house
and senate would sure quake in their shoes.

Folks, it's not enough to keep talking to each other. Even when the talk it eloquent

Dems sold us a bill of goods in '06. What difference if Senate and Congress had repub majorities? Answer: zero.

Hoyer and Pelosi and Reid and their ilk--I despise them more than many Republicans, because with the republicans we never had any expectation they'd do the right thing. The Dems have consistently allowed Bush to proceed with the destruction of this nation. The blood is on THEIR hands now.

Feingold is one of a small minority of Dems who do the right thing consistently. Unfortunately for every Dem like him there are three Feinsteins who approve every Bush nominee and funding request without batting an eye.

Just stop voting on supplementals. You don't have to write a bill formally cutting off funding and you don't have to write a bill that says "the war ends today". All the Dems have to do is to NOT VOTE ON SUPPLEMENTALS. If the funding bill doesn't reach Bush's desk, he can't sign it. Pretty friggin' simple. If the Dems are a real opposition party, this is what they will do. If they are a fake opposition party as appears most likely, they will continue giving lip service to being against the war but continue to fund it. Time to show us your true colors Democrats. The people are waiting.

And calling it "misguided" has to be the understatement of the decade. The Geneva Conventions state that launching a war of aggression is considered the supreme international crime. When Country A isn't being provoked by Country B but invades it anyway, that's nothing other than a war of aggression, plain and simple, not a "war of choice" as many try to explain it away as, and certainly not simply "misguided". Accidentally going into the women's restroom when you're supposed to go into the men's is misguided. The Iraq War is naked aggression, fundamentally no different than the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. So this is a CRIMINAL war, an ILLEGAL war, not a "misguided" one.